Neuropsychology of Communication

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Balconi, Michela. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Speech pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Speech Pathology.; Linguistics (general).
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1584-5

The volume focuses on the neuropsychological correlates of communication in daily interactions. The predominant account in explaining the construction of meaning by humans is the inter-relational perspective, which postulates an intentional convergence of meaning arising as a consequence of the acti...

Table of Contents:

• Section I The Neuropsychology of Language and Communication
• 1 Biological Basis of Linguistic and Communicative Systems: From Neurolinguistics to Neuropragmatics
• 2 Methods and Research Perspectives on the Neuropsychology of Communication
• 3 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Study of Language and Communication
• 4 Electromagnetic Indices of Language Processings
• Section II Neuropragmatics. Psychophysiological, Neuropsychological and Cognitive Correlates
• 5 From Pragmatics to Neuropragmatics
• 6 Idiomatic Language Comprehension: Neuropsychological Evidence
• 7 Anticipatory Mechanisms in Idiom Comprehension: Psycholinguistic and Electrophysiological Evidence
• 8 Towards a Neurophysiology of Language
• Section III From Intentions to Nonverbal Communication
• 9 Intentions and Communication: Cognitive Strategies, Metacognition and Social Cognition
• 10 The Neuropsychology of Nonverbal Communication: The Facial Expressions of Emotions
• 11 Emotions, Attitudes and Personality: Psychophysiological Correlates
• Subject Index.